January 25 - February 16, 2018
Reception: January 25, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Gallery 219 at Eastfield College
Kathy Lovas is a multi-media artist who regularly moves between photography and sculpture in her projects. Her investigations into the ontology of photography have informed her work throughout her career and led to working with non-traditional installation ideas and an interest in examining the idea of “the frame”. Evolving from subject matter in her daily life, Lovas’ works address the malfunction and reassembly of memory, and the roles photography and other objects play in its dissemination.
In her site-specific installation, Close-Up Magic, Lovas intersperses elements from several projects created between 1998 and 2018. These text-based photographic works and sculptural installations, installed to create a continuous flow of images and ideas, speak in multiple ways to the rapidly evolving definition of photography. In Photography is Magic, independent curator and writer, Charlotte Cotton addressed the ways in which contemporary photography consider the perspective and participation of the viewer, much like that of a magician, opening the viewer to a compelling experience. Lovas’ installation performs similarly, “inviting viewers’ imaginative participation in our current post-internet collective image environment”.
Kathy Lovas has been photography faculty in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in Denton since 1992. She is a 1995 recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and was a 1991 fellow of the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar at New York University. Selected solo exhibitions of her work include Lawndale Art Center, Galveston Art Center, Women and Their Work, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX. She has been resident artist at Project Row Houses in Houston, Connemara Conservancy in Allen, TX and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She is currently represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX.
Eastfield College is located at 3737 Motley Drive in Mesquite, TX. From I-30 take Exit 54 toward Big Town Blvd. Take Big Town Blvd North which turns into La Prada. From La Prada take a right on Carol Brown Dr. Go right on Eastfield Parkway and park in the W3 parking lot (on your left). Gallery 219 is located in the F Building on the 2nd floor in F219C.
Viewing hours for this exhibition are 9:00AM to 4:00PM weekdays, Contact [email protected] for additional information. http://eastfieldgalleries.blogspot.com/
Price
- FREE!
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